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<text>
<title>
Burma: Economy
</title>
<article><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Burma
Economy</hdr><body>
<p>Overview: Burma is a poor Asian country, with a per capita GDP
of about $660. The nation has been unable to achieve any
substantial improvement in export earnings because of falling
prices for many of its major commodity exports. For rice,
traditionally the most important export, the drop in world
prices has been accompanied by shrinking markets and a smaller
volume of sales. In 1985 teak replaced rice as the largest
export and continues to hold this position. The economy is
heavily dependent on the agricultural sector, which generates
about 40% of GDP and provides employment for 65% of the work
force. Burma has been largely isolated from international
economic forces and has been trying to encourage foreign
investment, so far with little success.
</p>
<p>National product: GDP - exchange rate conversion - $28 billion
(1992)
</p>
<p>National product real growth rate: 1.3% (1992)
</p>
<p>National product per capita: $660 (1992)
</p>
<p>Inflation rate (consumer prices): 50% (1992)
</p>
<p>Unemployment rate: 9.6% (FY89 est.) in urban areas
</p>
<p>Budget: revenues $8.1 billion; expenditures $11.6 billion,
including capital expenditures of $NA (1992)
</p>
<list>
<l>Exports: $535.1 million (FY92)</l>
<l> commodities: teak, rice, oilseed, metals, rubber, gems</l>
<l> partners: China, India, Thailand, Singapore</l>
<l>Imports: $907.0 million (FY92)</l>
<l> commodities: machinery, transport equipment, chemicals, food
products</l>
<l> partners: Japan, China, Singapore</l>
</list>
<p>External debt: $4 billion (1992)
</p>
<p>Industrial production: growth rate 2.6% (FY90 est.); accounts
for 10% of GDP
</p>
<p>Electricity: 1,100,000 kW capacity; 2,800 million kWh
produced, 65 kWh per capita (1992)
</p>
<p>Industries: agricultural processing; textiles and footwear;
wood and wood products; petroleum refining; mining of copper,
tin, tungsten, iron; construction materials; pharmaceuticals;
fertilizer
</p>
<p>Agriculture: accounts for 40% of GDP (including fish and
forestry); self-sufficient in food; principal crops - paddy
rice, corn, oilseed, sugarcane, pulses; world's largest stand of
hardwood trees; rice and teak account for 55% of export revenues
</p>
<p>Illicit drugs: world's largest illicit producer of opium poppy
and minor producer of cannabis for the international drug trade;
opium production has nearly doubled since the collapse of
Rangoon's antinarcotic programs
</p>
<p>Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $158
million; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral
commitments (1970-89), $3.9 billion; Communist countries
(1970-89), $424 million
</p>
<p>Currency: 1 kyat (K)=100 pyas
</p>
<p>Exchange rates: kyats (K) per US$1 - 6.0963 (January 1992),
6.2837 (1991), 6.3386 (1990), 6.7049 (1989), 6.46 (1988), 6.6535
(1987); unofficial - 105
</p>
<p>Fiscal year: 1 April-31 March
</p></body></article></text>